these pieces offer hopeful re-conceptions of ‘shared foreignness’ as Lila Matsumoto describes it
telephone exchanges with sexy names – occasionally drawing on his Jewish experience to give context to his depiction of a modern world where violence explodes with increasing fury and the sirens rarely stop
The schema is pitch-perfect in its lyric adaptations and wholly original in the way it incorporates a narrative of images to its purpose
“Not One Step Back”
tracing a line between two significant events in recent British history: the New Cross Massacre of 1981 in which thirteen young black people were killed in a house fire – and the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017
The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams <br><b>PBS Summer Wildcard 2019</b> Karen Leeder these pieces offer hopeful re-conceptionsFrom the award winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land take note. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From